‘There has simply been continuous idiocracy taking place. We’re dwelling in a comedy goldmine proper now’ – YouTube comedian Joey B Toonz

They stroll amongst us, and apparently proliferate on social media: narcissists who will do seemingly something for a like or a click on. Fortunately YouTuber and comic Joey B Toonz is right here to assist us all look and snicker.

Just lately I had a impolite awakening to one thing that was inexplicably trending worldwide. Seeing the tweet of a comic and social commentator I observe, I discovered of the weird ‘milk crate problem’.  Whereas many individuals round are struggling to get by, or are below lockdown, a surprisingly vital variety of folks had been filming themselves attempting to stroll over a pyramid of milk crates. 

Being usually oblivious to such time-wasting and stupendously idiotic fads, I made a decision to talk with the man whose tweet introduced it to my consideration. 

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Joey Borelli, or as he’s identified on social media, Joey B Toonz, is an American comic, illustrator, animator. Earlier than beginning his social commentary, he labored within the movie trade, and toured movie festivals together with his comedy-based animated shorts.

Lately, he began doing scathing critiques of among the most weird and narcissistic traits and other people on social media. 

I got here throughout him someday final 12 months, stumbling upon his hilarious movies highlighting the narcissism so prevalent on social media platforms these days, a sequence titled ‘Narcissists and social media’. 

Throughout our dialog, he defined his drive to do social commentary.

“There has simply been continuous idiocracy taking place. We’re dwelling in a comedy goldmine proper now. I am mainly attempting to focus on the idiocracy of what’s going on on the planet proper now, saying among the stuff that we settle for as regular is the issue.” 

I, myself, am not on TikTok, so have remained blissfully unaware of the madness that reigns there. However Joey B is acutely conscious. 

“I found TikTok two years in the past. I stated to myself, what the hell is that this?” he stated, noting not solely the narcissism prevalent on the platform, but in addition the final lack of expertise or creativity of some extraordinarily well-liked “influencers.” 

“These children are twirling their arms round, however anyone may do that. It is not like these individuals are salsa dancing or performing some type of complicated ballet routine. And so they’re getting sponsors they usually’ve bought hundreds of thousands of followers. In the meantime, there is a man portray like Leonardo da Vinci and he is bought 300 followers.”

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Censoring commentary

For his video on the milk crate problem, YouTube gave Joey B a strike, stopping him from importing content material for one week and warning him that his video violated YouTube’s dangerous and harmful coverage. However, as he identified, it isn’t like his was the one video on the market. 

“When you go on YouTube now and search ‘milk crate problem’ there’s, I dunno, perhaps seven million of these movies on 10 million channels. It is on the Tonight Present channel, it is on the At the moment Present channel, it is on all the highest YouTubers’ channels. However after I discuss it, abruptly, it is ‘dangerous and harmful’ content material. The one distinction is, I am making enjoyable of it and I am exhibiting society how silly and harmful it’s.” 

Based on Joey, this is not the primary time his content material has been censored by the tech giants whereas different examples of the identical material abound on the platform. 

“Any time any of my content material will get eliminated, I at all times discover that very same content material on a number of channels, main channels, whether or not information organizations or  simply huge YouTube channels. The one distinction between my movies and their movies is my commentary. So apparently they do not like what I am saying.” 

However others do like what Joey is saying, myself included. 

“The primary remark I get from folks is: I am unable to imagine you are on the market! You are saying every little thing that is on my thoughts, all of the issues I am unable to say. Individuals actually are censored,” he advised me.

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Narcissism and idiocracy 

Most of us have taken a selfie. Some accomplish that greater than others. Some, obsessively so. This can be a level Joey highlighted. 

“When you went again to 1982, and also you had a member of the family with a polaroid digicam connected to her face, and she or he’s taking photos of herself, there’s photographs flying everywhere in the flooring, you’d name the physician. You’d have a household assembly: ‘We do not know what’s taking place to Suzy!’” 

When one places it like that, the obsessive selfies do appear borderline loopy. Joey added: “What should you labored at a one hour photograph place within the ‘90s and you bought a roll of movie in, and also you’re within the darkroom and also you’re growing the movie and also you see it is all some particular person’s face making duck lips. You’ll assume this was despatched over by a psychiatric ward for assessment or one thing.” 

However now, as he famous, it is solely frequent, discovered on the mobiles of hundreds of thousands of individuals. 

“Images of themselves within the mirror with the bathroom behind. It is disgusting. And no one says something about it. Then me, I am the man that is shouting within the sky about it and I get banned for it. I am the issue, someway.” 

Blind obedience

We mentioned the unquestioning obedience of many individuals nowadays, and the, in my view, nonsensical ‘well being’ measures they obey.

I introduced up considered one of his movies, by which he famous the hypocrisy of individuals just like the mayor of Los Angeles who ordered water and electrical energy to be shut off for many who have “unpermitted massive gatherings,” however then went on to take part in a large Black Lives Matter protest, unmasked and surrounded by folks.

At the moment we discover folks in authorities and media who faux to care about viruses.https://t.co/fGZmW1XVk6

— Joey B. Toonz (@joeybtoonz) November 30, 2020

Equally, late final 12 months, California Governor Gavin Newsom dined indoors (with lobbyists for the California Medical Affiliation, a lot much less) at a high-end restaurant after having suggested the general public to restrict gatherings. 

“I believe a variety of these politicians see us in the way in which we see them: we do not respect them, they usually do not respect us. So, they give the impression of being down at us, and I believe they take a look at us as incompetent and incapable.” 

One of many illogical ‘well being measures’ inflicted on many over the previous 12 months and a half is having to put on a masks to enter a restaurant, however then not whereas seated. Joey unleashed on that, too. 

“So mainly, I can spit everywhere in the desk, after which the waitress can come and seize the plate together with her naked arms, with all of the germs throughout it, after which deliver it previous all of the those who they are saying you are supposed to guard as you stroll in with the masks, spreading it throughout after which give it to the folks within the kitchen, spreading it there.

How does that make any sense?  What is that this blind religion within the authorities or authority to inform us the way to handle our well being? And why would you simply undergo that, when you already know it would not make sense?  The brainwashing is absolutely actual.” 

One other video of his highlights simply that time: a person standing on steps and holding a lint curler has folks unquestioningly holding their arms out to be rubbed with the lint curler earlier than getting into the constructing.

“All it takes is you standing in a spot and mimicking how a enterprise would function. And so they go: ‘okay, should be a safety man. Okay, I suppose I simply belief no matter he does.’ That is what’s happening in these folks’s minds, they are not questioning something. You imply to say that there is no one in authority that’s making the most of these folks?” 

As he stated in considered one of his narcissists and social media movies, “That is the world we reside in now people: the take a look at me era, the place everybody finds a method to make every little thing about themselves and be sure to see it.”

And but, this form of habits is inspired, whereas important pondering is punished. 

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“For some purpose, they do not need you speaking about that. It is virtually as in the event that they depend on that kind of content material for his or her platforms. I believe they wish to maintain folks dumbed down,” he stated. 

I might agree. Preserve folks distracted with the most recent loopy traits so they do not take into consideration greater points. 

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